{"id":20388,"date":"2015-03-09T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/03\/09\/tour-de-langkawi-2-repeat-victory-for-guardini-r2164\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:13:01","slug":"tour-de-langkawi-2-repeat-victory-for-guardini-r2164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/tour-de-langkawi-2-repeat-victory-for-guardini-r2164\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Langkawi #2: Repeat victory for Guardini"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was repeat victory for Andrea Guardini (Astana) at the 2nd Tour de Langkawi stage today. Caleb Ewan (Orica-GreenEdge) was 2nd once again with Jakub Mareczko (Southeast) in 3rd position.<\/p>\n

In traditional Tour de Langkawi style, there was a small break of 6 riders who went clear early on in the stage. Team Astana and Orica-Greenedge were the two teams on duty at the head of the peloton, keeping the escapees in check. With the gap at not much more than 2 minutes for the entire stage, it was a matter of when and not if they would be caught.<\/p>\n

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With 10km to go it was time to neutralise the racing and the fugitives were reeled in. There was quite a downpour at the finish line just before the riders arrived, making for a tricky run-in to the finish on the wet roads. Once again MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung were riding in support of Youcef Reguigui. The chaotic sprint saw the Algerian slightly boxed in and had to settle for 13th on day.<\/p>\n

\nIt was another sprint day where a small break got a gap. The yellow jersey team controlled the peloton, making sure there was a sprint finish. Youcef was in the mix but as sprinting goes there was just no way through today. We try again tomorrow.
\nMichel Cornelisse – Sport Director<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was repeat victory for Andrea Guardini (Astana) at the 2nd Tour de Langkawi stage today. Caleb Ewan (Orica-GreenEdge) was 2nd once again with Jakub Mareczko (Southeast) in 3rd position. In traditional Tour de Langkawi style, there was a small break of 6 riders who went clear early on in the stage. Team Astana and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4325,3285,1662],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-andrea-guardini","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka-p-b-samsung","tag-tour-de-langkawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20388"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}